Mr. Bonkey1st off thanks for the quick reply secondly thanks for a great utility!Both- the directory is filled with a collection of sub directories with images. Total directory size is 19gig. I should note that I'm running Bonkey from rdp session.While I have you I'm so very confused about the directory structure with S3. When using the firefox plug-in -thanks for the heads up on this also-I see many different directories that have been created from other applications and from Bonkey but Im not sure how to manage this correctly from Bonkey.

Regarding the large backup, the total size shouldn't be an issue, but the number of files could be more than there is memory to handle. I've run a backup with about 6500 files and had no problems - I'm guessing you have a lot more than that. Bonkey may just not be able to handle them all in one go I'm afraid, due to the way it maps directories before backing up. That might be something I look at in the future.

From Bonkey, when you have an S3 location, you will only see the contents of the bucket that you specify when you setup the location. You can browse the files in that bucket using the tree in Bonkey, or using the firefox plugin.

Got it.Yes the directory 350 sub directories and 13,000 + files.I really like the zip on the fly. Maybe look at adding rar,tat etc.Also would really like a to see the ability to send a e-mail message on completion/failure of the back up. Just a thought.I'll keep the feedback coming.

Mr. BonkeyHow can I configure the folder-structure on S3?Right now the files are saved under:BucketName / TargetName / BackupGroupName / FolderName / * filesI would very much appreciate if they could be saved using this folder-structure:BucketName / FolderName / * filesHow can I do that?

Hi, I'm not able to correctly configure S3, your help appriciated:Where to put the relevant Access Key ID,Secret Access Key, Account number? I already created a seperate bucket but not able to access it?

When you add an S3 location, enter your Access Key ID and the name of a bucket you have created in the fields provided in the dialog. When you access the location the first time, you will be asked for your password - in this prompt, enter your Secret Access Key.

"You must create a bucket manually." Can someone tell me what a bucket is? This terminology isn't found anywhere on the Amazon site and is only found once on the firefox extension documentation (and it certainly doesn't make it clear as to how I should go about "creating" one).

Hi,If I copy a file to the root of my S3 account, the S3 Firefox Organizer shows it under:BucketName / BucketName / FileNameIf I backup a folder, it is saved under:BucketName / BucketName / BackupGroupName / FolderNameWhy does Bonkey create a subfolder with the name of the bucket? Is it the expected behaviour?Thanks for this great app.

Anonymous - a bucket is like a folder, it is essentially the S3 term for a root folder. To create one, go to the root directory of your S3 account in the firefox extension and create a folder.

Nicolas - thanks for the feedback. Folder names is something that should be customised in the next release, so that you can structure the folders how you please. For the moment, you'll just have to endure a little redundancy!

Thanks Donkey. I imagine you could use an outside utility to decrypt, I haven't played around with it, as I rely on downloading and decrypting inside Bonkey. The encryption key should in theory be able to be used with any implementation of the AES algorithm. Please let me know if you have any success.

File patterns have long been on the //TODO list here - hopefully in short order they'll be in a new version.

Jmike, this particular monkey has no experience with WST, but if you can use WST to start up and shutdown Bonkey, then you could do what you are describing. Bonkey will check if a backup is due immediately upon starting up, so just give it time to run the backup and shut it down. Please let me know how it goes.

No conspiracy, though your paranoia is admirable. I am not sure about your particular system configuration, but the simplest solution is probably to upgrade to the latest version of Java - you can download it from www.java.com.

Uhm... Like I said in my comment, which it seems like you cut parts out of, that's exactly what I did - downloaded and installed the latest version from Java.com, (or at least the latest that I found via Google.) And I did reboot afterwards.

Just have to love these error messages which have some remote correlation to reality, but are completely inappropriate in a given situation.

Okey dokey, if you have the latest version of Java installed (and 1.4.2, the version you cite, isn't the latest version) then there must be some configuration issue on your system which means the most up-to-date version isn't being used when you load an application. I'm afraid I can't help with that.

FWIW, no editing on any posts. Feel free to email at thebackupmonkey at google mail if you have any more problems.

You'll have to be a little more specific than that. I've not had any other reports of that nature, so I'm not sure what could be causing it. If you can provide more details, please email me at thebackupmonkey at gmail

Terminology is always hard. I'm not quite clear on yours: what do you mean by "saving the backup"?

"Target" should always mean the place that the files will be backed up to.

To add files to a backup:1) open the backup group by clicking on its name on the main screen;2) locate the files in the location tree on the right hand side;3) drag the files in to the file tree for the backup group.